Ultima 7 German Translation
Produced by: Sir John
Website: Sprachpatch für Ultima 7
A batch script to apply the German translation patch for Ultima 7: The Black Gate. Also includes translated versions of manuals.
A Windows application apply the German translation patch for Ultima 7: The Black Gate. Also includes translated versions of manuals.
Sir John was one of the principal contributors to the German translation of the Ultima 6 Project, and with the love of the Ultima still very much in his heart after completing that work, he decided to tackle the task of translating the original Ultima 7 to German as well. It was an ambitious project, especially for what appeared to be a solo effort, but Sir John was able to release a finished — and highly polished — translation of the game.
Significant hurdles that Sir John had to overcome to complete this translation project included finding helpful tools to speed up the translation process, and addressing the difficult challenge of handling how the Ultima 7 engine and font would display certain kinds of punctuation (e.g. umlauts). Indeed, dealing with this latter issue led him to also develop an alternative font that would better display certain characters important to the German language.
The completed patch also includes John Glassmyer’s various hacks and tweaks for The Black Gate, and brings in a few of the bugfixes and lore corrections from Sir John’s Ultima 7 Nitpicker’s Delight Patch as well.
Sir John has also produced a translation of the manual for Ultima 7, and for its expansion, Forge of Virtue. These are included in the downloads here. Two versions of the patch are available: one which is executed via a Windows batch script, and one which is wrapped up in a nice GUI application.
Very cool, there were French and German versions of the game iirc. Were they poor translations?
I believe so, yes.